Property Accountant; Pre-Handover

We're excited to be looking for a qualified Property Accountant to join our Corporate Finance team on a part‑time, permanent basis (18.5 hours per week). This key role is part of a job‑share arrangement offering genuine flexibility and collaboration. It sits at the heart of how we plan, evaluate and deliver new developments, supporting our ambition to build 10,000 new affordable homes across South Wales over the next decade.

This is a varied and high‑impact role where you’ll combine financial modelling, property accounting and leadership to support investment decisions across the Group. You’ll lead a small team evaluating new business opportunities, ensuring consistency, rigor and quality in all appraisals. Using Excel, viability tools and Brixx, you’ll provide clear insight into financial performance and risk to support decisions on multi‑million‑pound developments and contracts.

You’ll work closely with colleagues across development, asset management and care and support, helping to evaluate opportunities, challenge assumptions and ensure a joined‑up approach to planning and delivery. The role also plays a key part in property accounting up to handover, supporting audit, statutory returns, financial reporting and compliance, ensuring strong controls and accurate reporting across development activity.

• Lead and develop a small team evaluating investment opportunities and proposals
• Provide financial modelling, viability analysis and risk assessment for multi‑million‑pound developments
• Interpret financial performance and support decision‑making for new developments and contracts
• Collaborate with development, asset management and care/support teams to evaluate opportunities and challenge assumptions
• Provide property accounting up to handover, supporting audit, statutory returns, financial reporting and compliance
• Maintain strong internal control frameworks and accurate reporting across development activity
• Support agile working across Cardiff, Newport or Swansea and attend key meetings in office as required
• Ensure consistent and rigorous appraisal processes for all investment proposals

• Qualified CCAB accountant with strong Excel skills (experience of Brixx desirable)
• Experience conducting complex financial appraisals for development or capital investment schemes
• Ideally experience of revenue viability modelling, particularly within care and support
• Strong understanding of property accounting, ideally within a development lifecycle
• Confident at analysing complex information and challenging assumptions constructively
• Clear communication skills with a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience leading or supporting team development and maintaining high performance
• Organised, methodical and comfortable managing competing priorities; motivated to improve systems, processes and ways of working

• Full‑time equivalent salary of £57,048, pro rata (18.5 hours per week)
• Hybrid working model with flexible hours, requiring presence on Wednesdays
• Option to receive salary weekly or monthly
• Generous sick pay increasing with length of service
• 26 days annual leave (rising to 31 days) pro rata
• Well‑being support, benefits and recognition programmes
• Opportunities to develop your career across the Group